Down Club Hurling & Football

[Town Gael]

Are there top 4 playoffs this year or do the top team win the league?

[Down Mad]

'If Tullylish don't win the Intermediate Football Championship, then the bottom 3 teams of Division one will be relegated!!! I would say that Rostrevor, Warrenpoint, An Riocht and Liatriom are all hoping for Tullylish to win IFC!!!!'

Umpire, how does this work??

[umpire]

Are there top 4 playoffs this year or do the top team win the league?

Division One and Two, the top finishing team would automatically contest the League Final whilst the team(s) in second and third place would meet with the winner contesting the league final.

[umpire]

'If Tullylish don't win the Intermediate Football Championship, then the bottom 3 teams of Division one will be relegated!!! I would say that Rostrevor, Warrenpoint, An Riocht and Liatriom are all hoping for Tullylish to win IFC!!!!'

Umpire, how does this work??

I have made a mistake with above quote. see below.

The two bottom finishing teams would be automatically relegated whilst the team finishing third from bottom in Division One would play the team finishing third in Division Two with the winner of that game gaining first division status for the following year.


In Championship.

if the Intermediate Winners were not one of the teams promoted to Division One then they would by virtue of winning the Intermediate Championship replace the team in the Senior Championship who won the right to either stay in Division One or were promoted from Division two by way of the third place play off.

In summation the Intermediate Championship winners will always be guaranteed the opportunity to play in the following years Senior Football Championship.

[Down Mad]

I think you are wrong, Umpire, with regard to division 2.

The team which finishes top of div 2 wins the league and is promoted. 2nd place is automatically promoted as runners up and 3rd place team plays 3rd bottom team of div 1. The winner of that will gain/retain div 1 status!!

[supersub]

With regards to the league your initial statement is indeed wrong, always has been the case that the bottom two are automatically relegated and third bottom plays third in division 2. Not sure about Championship but would be a bit harsh if a team regains their Division 1 status by winning the playoff but aren't allowed into the Senior Championship the following year.

[downjim]

Any report from the Ford and Bridge game last night?? Had Byransford a full team playing??

[Down Follower]

Any report from the Ford and Bridge game last night?? Had Byransford a full team playing??

Both teams were 80-90% - Bridge missing Benny/Gavin Barry, Ford missing Danny Savage.

Both teams missed a helluva lot of chances with Kevin O'Rourke hitting 4-5 wides in first half alone for the Bridge. Bryansford were very streaky and would go completely out of the game for long periods before hitting a puprle patch and hitting a run of scores.  Ford went 5 points up (1-10 to 0-08 or something similar), with about 15 minutes to go in one of those periods and looked to be cruising after soaking up a lot of Bridge pressure earlier in the half. Bridge looked lost without Benny at this stage before O'Rourke, mentioned already as hitting a load of wides, put the Bridge on his shoulders and carried them to a win.

Slight exaggeration maybe but he did have a terrific finish to the game.  He moved out the field from full forward and set up a number of scores for other players.

King did absolutely nothing from No. 11 while Bonny, Maginn and co. delivered plenty of promise but looked for goals far too often.  Good win for the Bridge without Benny and showed that there may be life after their great team as Pluggy and Conor Garvey also came off at half time.  Ford still look a very capable team and looked to be slightly thinking of over things to be honest. 

Good game, plenty of attacking football with the usual spells of all out defence thrown in.

[downjim]

Thanks Down follower. Was Ryan Brady or Keith Quinn playing as I heard they are home. The Bridge could slip into a semi final under the rador and they could make a lot of people including myself eat humble pie. Although they are not what they were they would still not be a team that teams would not like to meet. They were dreadful at the start of the year.
Has anyone got odds for the championship?? Kilcoo and Byransford would be my favourites now

[Buffer]

I def wouldn't right of burren,the defeat against the ford was probably a good result for them,they will be out to prove a point now,although castlewellan aren't gona lie down to them,burren defence will have there hands full with a young lively attacking line.should be interesting

[umpire]

Paddy Power
11/4 Burren
11/4 Kilcoo
11/4 Mayobridge
3/1 Bryansford
9/1 Castlewellan
18/1 Clonduff
25/1 Saval
33/1 Loughinisland

[Gaa for life]

Castlewellan beat a poor warrenpoint side last nite 5.23 to 0.7. This result (as does the burren v point result) only prove that division one needs to be reverted back to a 10/12 team league. IMO a 10 team div 1 and div 2 is the only way forward. No disrespect to teams at the bottom if div 1, because we were there for a few years but Their is too much of a gulf in class between the top and bottom teams. A 10 team league would garentee tight games almost every week. It would also make div 2 stronger and more competitive as was the case a few years back when we had this system. Results like last night don't stand well for the teams that get promoted next year.

[Buffer]

It's doing no one any good geting hiddens like that but castlewellan beat the point 38 to 7points while just a few weeks ago burren beat the same team 36 to 5 points, shows there's nothing between these two sides going into next weeks championship,should be an interesting game

[stiff breeze]

Castlewellan beat a poor warrenpoint side last nite 5.23 to 0.7. This result (as does the burren v point result) only prove that division one needs to be reverted back to a 10/12 team league. IMO a 10 team div 1 and div 2 is the only way forward. No disrespect to teams at the bottom if div 1, because we were there for a few years but Their is too much of a gulf in class between the top and bottom teams. A 10 team league would garentee tight games almost every week. It would also make div 2 stronger and more competitive as was the case a few years back when we had this system. Results like last night don't stand well for the teams that get promoted next year.

Exactly how do these two results prove anything Taking the point as an example before the start of the championship they got beat by 7 points on one occasion , That was the most all year ! they have been competitive most of the year taking a few big scalps along the way. As for the burren and castlewellan results they were relegated for both barring a miracle so is it really a big surprise they didn't turn up???

idiots who post knee jerk comments without any substance do my head in

[the derg]

Good luck to Aghaderg today if they beat Killyleagh they will have won the division 3 title some going for the boys considering the amount of transfers and retirements there has been over the last few years great work being done out in that club with the hurling going strong as well.